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Police snipers track al-Qaeda suspects
The Sunday Times ^ | July 17, 2005 | David Leppard
Posted on 07/16/2005 4:14:12 PM PDT by MadIvan
UNDERCOVER police sniper squads are tracking as many as a dozen Al-Qaeda suspects because security services fear they could be planning more suicide attacks, writes David Leppard.
The covert armed units are under orders to shoot to kill if surveillance suggests that a terror suspect is carrying a bomb and he refuses to surrender if challenged.
The deployment of the teams in the past week signals the huge “intelligence gap” that has opened up since the London bombings.
Police fear the suspects could be planning a further wave of attacks but do not have enough evidence to arrest them, or place them under the government’s new anti-terror control orders.
Sir Ian Blair, the Metropolitan police commissioner, warned last week that there was a “very strong possibility” of more terrorist bombings.
Scotland Yard and MI5 say there may be more “bomb factories”. However, officers admit that they have no idea which suspects could be planning the next attacks so they are deploying the sniper squads as an emergency measure.
A member of S019, Scotland Yard’s elite firearms unit, said: “These units are trained to deal with any eventuality. Since the London bombs they have been deployed to look at certain people.”
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"Was Parliament on bombers' hit list too?"
by GORDON RAYNER, Daily Mail08:31am 16th July 2005
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Suicide bomber Mohammad Sidique Khan was given a guided tour of the House of Commons last year - raising the disturbing prospect that Parliament was on the hit list of targets.
Khan, 30, was a guest of Labour MP Jon Trickett, whose wife Sarah is head of a school where the bomber taught.
During the visit in July he also met International Development Minister Hilary Benn, whose constituency includes the school, and was shown areas of Parliament which are off-limits to unaccompanied members of the public.
They included Portcullis House, the new extension where many MPs have their offices and where security has been exposed as worryingly lax in recent years.
'Disturbing'
News of Khan's visit raised alarm bells in Parliament, which was already on a state of high alert after the bombings.
Detectives believe at least one other member of the terror cell which carried out the suicide attacks is still at large."